Chapter 321: There are many strange things in the world
Let's turn the clock back to a week ago, when the summer war in Hong Kong had come to an end, and Wong Pak Ming and his party in Singapore had arrived at Malaysia's Subang International Airport.
As soon as they left the airport, they felt that something was wrong, because the treatment was too different from when they arrived in Singapore, there were no flowers to open the way, no gongs and drums to sound in unison, and there were no large numbers of reporters and welcome personnel.
The only one who has it is the thin and weak Malaysian Cathay Pacific propaganda assistant Xiao Huang in front of him. As for this propaganda assistant, it's just a serious little clerk.
Inexplicably, a trace of depression flashed in Huang Baiming's heart.
Huang Baiming, who was following this Xiao Huang to the airport, suddenly asked, "Xiao Huang, when will the press conference be held here?" ”
"Press conference?" Xiao Huang, who also helped carry some of the luggage, was stunned for a moment, and then replied cowardly: "The press conference has been canceled, but Mr. Zhu, the consultant of our company, wants to meet Mr. Huang." ”
Huang Baiming paused and asked in surprise, "Consultant?" Mr. Zhu? See me? ”
"Hmm." Xiao Huang nodded slightly.
Listening to the words of this family surnamed Huang, Huang Baiming's worries were even worse. He took "Best Partner 3" to Malaysia to do publicity, and was treated so coldly, there was no press conference, not even a newspaper advertisement. And in the end, the end result is that some adviser from Cathay Pacific wants to see him, which must be very abnormal.
In the past, it was the manager of Cathay Pacific here who received him.
Needless to say, after Huang Baiming and his party went to the hotel to settle down and pack their luggage, he followed Xiao Huang to a third-rate tea room. It's just that this Xiao Huang also looks quite busy, and after settling down Huang Baiming, he left here in a hurry.
At this moment, Huang Baiming, who is alone, is dumbfounded!
The consultant surnamed Zhu said that he had made an appointment to meet him, and now the agreed time has arrived, but what about others? Besides, this tearoom sounds good, but it's actually just a restaurant with a cubicle. Huang Baiming and his entourage rushed over from Singapore, and they were already hungry after a long day of exhaustion. Now in order to wait for that Consultant Zhu without losing face on both sides, Huang Baiming had to smell the aroma of the food and sit there awkwardly.
This sitting is fifteen minutes.
"Aha, this must be Mr. Huang, I've been looking up for a long time, I'm sorry that the company is too late."
Just as Huang Baiming was hesitating whether to return to the hotel, a loud voice sounded next to him. He then turned his head to look, and saw a middle-aged man in a flowered dress and pants dragging a pair of slippers sitting opposite him.
"Advisor Zhu?" Huang Baiming asked with the anger in his heart.
Even the pig now feels that something is wrong, the press conference has been canceled, the movie promotion has been canceled, the reception room has become a food stall, and even the consultant Zhu who came to meet him is not dressed like a person who is here to talk, and the whole person is a second-rate image.
Has anyone ever seen a meeting between the two sides and one of them wearing slippers?
"Haha, exactly." Consultant Zhu smiled and said, "Mr. Huang is tired and hungry for a long time, whatever you like to eat, call it whatever you like!" ”
Huang Baiming narrowed his eyes slightly, and suddenly raised his hand to greet the waiter, "Have a barbecued pork rice." ”
"Uh......" Consultant Zhu obviously didn't expect Huang Baiming to really order a meal, and said after smiling awkwardly: "Mr. Huang, I don't need to do the publicity of "Best Partner 3", no one will watch it anyway, and the movie of your new art city has caused us to lose a lot of money." ”
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Huang Baiming was angry when he heard this, what the hell is it! The film scenery of the new art city in the past few years is amazing, the results are all spelled out with a knife and a gun, it can be regarded as one of the best film companies in Hong Kong, and in Taiwan, it is even more avoidant of peers, this Zhu consultant actually said that he caused them to lose money, what kind of consultant is this?
Huang Baiming endured the anger in his heart and asked in a low voice: "The films in New Arts City have already done well in Hong Kong, what do you think we need to improve?" ”
"It's useless." Consultant Zhu waved his hand, and continued with a look of pointing out the country: "Your movie is selling in a mess here, I don't understand why our company signed a long-term contract with you?" ”
Huang Baiming really can't help it now, isn't it the box office in the Xingma area, we don't want it in Xinyicheng! Anyway, now that Hong Kong movies are booming, most of the films in New Arts City can recover their capital in Hong Kong, and you can also add Taiwan's income.
"Mr. Zhu, from this bell onwards, the contract between our Xinyicheng and your company has been terminated, and I am embarrassed to let you continue to lose money!" Huang Baiming stood up with a swish, and just as the waiter walked out with barbecued pork rice, Huang Baiming immediately pushed the rice down in front of Advisor Zhu, and continued mockingly: "This bowl of barbecued pork rice, you should eat it slowly by yourself." ”
As soon as he finished saying this, Huang Baiming, who had a bad breath in his heart, brushed his sleeves away, leaving only Consultant Zhu, who was stunned there.
Huang Baiming immediately returned to the hotel to pack his luggage, and flew back to Hong Kong from Malaysia with a group of people from Xinyi City in the evening. And as soon as Huang Baiming returned to Hong Kong, he immediately convened a board meeting and decided to immediately terminate the contract of Singapore, Malaysia and Cathay Pacific. As a result, the directors of Xinyicheng were united with the outside world at this time, agreed with Huang Baiming's decision, and decided to stop distributing Xinyicheng's films to Xingma.
At this time, Singapore's Guo Milan was unlucky, because the group in Xinyi City didn't know that Xingma Cathay had split up, and Xingma and Malaysia never mentioned it to them. As a result, the punishment decision of New Arts City, which was angry for himself, included Singapore's Cathay Pacific.
So when Singapore's Guo Milan received the news, he immediately became Sparta.
Guo Milan's Singapore Cathay was split from Singapore, Malaysia, and has just undergone a large-scale reshuffle. Everyone knows that Singapore's own films are not good at this time, and Singapore's media and news control at this time is stricter than that of Taiwan and the mainland. It's true that Singapore's Cathay Pacific has been losing money before, that is, bringing in some films from Hong Kong and Hollywood can also make up for the difference.
This trick of the new art city blocked most of the most profitable water veins of Singapore Cathay Pacific at once!
Of course, there is also a small half in the hands of Golden Harvest......
And what made Guo Milan even more anxious happened, because of the company's large-scale reorganization and blood change, as a result, their local film source in Singapore and Hollywood film source had some problems at the same time, and they were also cut off together. By the time Guo Milan felt scared, there were two new movies left in the library of Singapore's Cathay Cinemas.
According to the speed at which theaters generally release a new movie in a week, that means that Singapore's Cathay Cinemas can only survive for another two weeks.
In order to show its strength, a theater chain has to release new films every week or so at a loss. Otherwise, some second-round films will be released, what kind of cinema is this?
Even Lei Juekun's Princess Jin and Li Xuan's Wanda also screened some bad movies in the first few months and lost some small money.
Guo Milan has only been in office for two months and has such a big problem, can this not make him extremely anxious......
In the end, in desperation, the general manager of Singapore's Cathay Cinema Line had to come to Hong Kong's New Arts City to explain to several big bosses in order to dispel this unwarranted disaster.
Li Xuan was also very surprised by this bizarre and strange thing, and after listening to Guo Milan sigh and finish the details, he couldn't wait to ask, "Who is this Consultant Zhu?" How can it be, uh, so weird. ”
"Wonderful?" Guo Milan was stunned for a moment, and then sighed: "That guy is really a wonder, isn't he a henchman of the general manager of Malaysia Cathay Pacific, he really doesn't care about anything in order to take advantage, and he still wants to press people and wait and then the lion opens his mouth, he doesn't take a good look at the object first, his brain is really kicked by the donkey." If it weren't for the fact that there are too many strange things like Xingma, how would we be divided, how could we reorganize and change blood on a large scale, and how could we now make ourselves face this dilemma, hey! ”
“……”
A long sigh showed that Cathay, which shared the world equally with the Shaw Brothers back then, also had a sense of twilight, and Li Xuan also sighed secretly and continued to ask: "Then how is Consultant Zhu now?" ”
"I don't know." Guo Milan shook his head and said, "I can't interfere in their affairs in Malaysia, I just need to take care of my own territory." However, this surnamed Zhu has made such a lot of trouble, presumably Cathay will definitely not be able to stay in it. ”
Li Xuan nodded and said with a smile: "So, Mr. Guo's trouble is solved?" ”
"It's solved, but it's ......" Guo Milan shrugged his shoulders and said with a wry smile: "I let Boss Mai train for half an hour in Xinyi City in the morning, and I didn't even dare to say a word. ”
"Haha, since the misunderstanding is resolved, it's good that it's resolved." Li Xuan smiled heartily, and then asked: "But since Boss Guo's troubles have been solved, then this time I came to my company for ......"
"For cooperation!" Guo Milan suddenly interrupted Li Xuan's words and said directly.
(Note: There is really such a strange thing as Consultant Zhu.) (To be continued.) )